Fun Facts about the Medieval Clergy

- The priests brewed their own ale
- Monks copied manuscripts of classical authors
- Monks preformed surgery and had their entire bodies shaved
- Monks and Nuns prayed eight times a day
- Monks sung for Charlemange once
- Bishops received copies of the Magna Carta
- Bishops sometimes commanded knights to protect them
- There were guilds for Friars
- Some Friars became priests if they earned enough money
- Friar Tuck from Robin Hood was one of the first documented friars
- Friars sometimes gave better sermons than priests
- Priests preform sacrifices of animals and grown food
- Priests administer marriages
- Village bookkeeping was a duty of the priest
- The Clergy was one of the most important aspects of Medieval living!!!